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Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur was a French painter, sculptor and animalier. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Salon of 1849, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth centu…
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culture · French painter and sculptor (1822–1899) · painter · sculptor · draftsperson · artist · head teacher · also Rosa Bonheur, Marie Rosalie Bonheur, Rosalie Bonheur, Marie Rosa Bonheur, Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, Rosa Bohneur
Born 16 March 1822 · Died 25 May 1899 · Q241732
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Rosa Bonheur’s Animal Instinct
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2022· 4 entries
Artnet: Rosa Bonheur Was One of the Most Influential Artists of Her Time. Two Centuries Later, Museums Are Giving Her Remarkable Animal Portraits New Life
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Al Jazeera English: Rosa Bonheur: Why Google honours her today
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moneycontrol.com: Rosa Bonheur, iconic French animal painter, on Google Doodle
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NDTV: Google Celebrates French Artist Rosa Bonheur's 200th Birthday With A Doodle
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2020· 1 entry
Smithsonian Magazine: Rosa Bonheur’s Hyper-Realistic Animal Scenes Transfixed 19th-Century Europe
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2014· 1 entry
On the banks of the Seine at the Port des Invalides, the third in 2017 in Asnières-sur-Seine, and the fourth in 2021 in the Bois de Vincennes, home of the Rosa Bonheur Modern Team (RBMT) of various sports teams and a pep
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1978· 1 entry
A critic described Ploughing in the Nivernais as "entirely forgotten and rarely dragged out from oblivion"; however, that same year it was part of a series of paintings sent to China by the French government for an exhib
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1909· 1 entry
As Rosa Bonheur: sa vie, son oeuvre, was translated in 1997 by Gretchen Van Slyke and published as Rosa Bonheur: The Artist's (Auto)biography, so-named because Klumpke had used Bonheur's first-person voice
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1899· 5 entries
Died 1899-05-25.
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“No aguanto a las mujeres que piden permiso para pensar. Dejen que las mujeres establezcan sus propias metas con grandes y buenas obras, y no por convenciones.”
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“¿Porque no debería sentirme orgullosa de ser mujer? Mi padre, ese apóstol entusiasta de la humanidad, me dijo una y otra vez que la misión de una mujer es mejorar la raza humana… A sus doctrinas debo mi gran y gloriosa ambición grande por el sexo al cual orgullosamente pertenezco, cuya independencia defenderé hasta el día de mi muerte. Además, estoy convencida de que el futuro es nuestro.”
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Career landmark: funeral.
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“A arte é tirana. Exige coração, cérebro, alma e corpo. A totalidade do devoto. Nada menos do que isso receberá seu maior favor. Casei-me com a arte.”
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1894· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1894).
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Awarded Officer of the Order of Saint James of the Sword (1894).
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1893· 1 entry
And be the first major step in his career
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1890· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Order of Saint James of the Sword (1890).
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Bonheur painted Cody on horseback
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1889· 1 entry
And 1890, she developed a friendship with American sculptor Cyrus Dallin, who was studying in Paris
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1885· 1 entry
Awarded Cross of Merit for Art and Science (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) (1885).
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1880· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1880).
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Awarded Knight of the Order of Leopold (1880).
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1865· 3 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour presented by Eugénie de Montijo (1865).
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Awarded Order of Saint Charles (1865).
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And was promoted to Officer of the Order in 1894
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1859· 2 entries
Her success enabled her to move to the Château de By near Fontainebleau, not far from Paris, where she lived for the rest of her life
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The Highland Raid, completed in 1860, and other paintings
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1856· 1 entry
Bonheur traveled to England and Scotland with Micas, where she met Queen Victoria, John Ruskin, and other major British artists
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1849· 1 entry
And is now on display in the Musée d'Orsay located in Paris
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1828· 1 entry
At the age of six with her mother and siblings, after her father had gone ahead of them to establish a residence and income there
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1822· 1 entry
Born 1822-03-16.
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